[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

Mon Jun 18 10:11:55 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 18/06/12 07:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 06/18/2012 01:15 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I've just submitted systemd v185 to updates_testing.
+>>
+>> There are several important changes worth noting:
+>>   1. "systemd-sysvinit" has been merged into the main "systemd" package
+>> thus effectively making systemd the only choice for booting.
+>>   2. "systemd" package now contains systemd-udevd binary thus replacing
+>> the separate udev package (I see no reason to keep the binaries in
+>> separate packages).
+>>   3. The libudev major number has been bumped so several packages will
+>> need rebuilt when this hits main, but so far I've only rebuilt lvm2 for
+>> updates_testing. This seems to be enough for basic testing (I have LVM
+>> here).
+>>   4. Due to the new udevd path, dracut needed updating too. I've updated
+>> this and submitted to release (as it's backwards compatible). At a later
+>> date I'll update to latest dracut.
+>>
+>> Please ensure you are capable of restoring your system in the event of
+>> things messing up. This will mean booting and manually downgrading
+>> packages and reinstalling the older udev package.
+>>
+>> If all is well, this will go into cauldron at the end of the week.
+> 
+> It seems to work ok in my netbook, just two minor problems:
+> 
+> - in install:
+>    7/28: systemd              
+> #############################################
+>    /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.bM0Lmo: line 5: /usr/bin/systemctl: No such file or
+> directory
+>   in post-install, systemctl is already moved to /bin
+
+Ahh yes, this was me forgetting to revert a few paths. Dexter moved
+everything to /usr (which I support) but that requires a bigger change
+overall for other parts of the system which we'll need to plan a bit
+more holistically I think. It will come soon enough but I wanted to get
+this merged version in sooner rather than later.
+
+> - keyboard layout under Gnome got reset to English (from Spanish).
+> Changed manually under
+>   system settings and fine again.
+
+Interesting. Does this new setting survive a reboot? Does the new
+mapping work at the system level (i.e. is the layout respected in GDM)?
+
+Do you have a /etc/vconsole.conf file?
+
+> If I find anything more, I'll tell here...
+
+Many thanks :)
+
+Col
+
+
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